Broadway-Blues-Ballads

Broadway-Blues-Ballads
Studio album by Nina Simone
Released	November 1964
Recorded	New York City, 1964
Genre	Vocal, soul, jazz, folk, blues
Length	37:22
Label	Philips
Producer	Hal Mooney
Nina Simone chronology
Nina Simone in Concert (1964) Broadway-Blues-Ballads (1964) I Put a Spell on You (1965)

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AllMusic
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Pitchfork Media	8.0/10

Broadway-Blues-Ballads is an album by the singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone, released in 1964. The album features Simone singing a few standards and folk songs, as well as six compositions by Bennie Benjamin and Sol Marcus.

Track listing

1. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell, Sol Marcus) - 2:46
2. "Night Song" (Lee Adams, Charles Strouse) - 3:06
3. "The Laziest Gal in Town" (Cole Porter) - 2:19
4. "Something Wonderful" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 2:46
5. "Don't Take All Night" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:54
6. "Nobody" (Alex Rogers, Bert Williams) - 4:18
7. "I Am Blessed" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:57
8. "Of This I'm Sure" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:37
9. "See-Line Woman" ([traditional] American folk, George Bass, Nina Simone) - 2:38
10. "Our Love (Will See Us Through)" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 3:01
11. "How Can I?" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:05
12. "The Last Rose of Summer" (Thomas Moore, Richard Alfred Milliken, Nina Simone) - 3:08

• on some CD releases the single "A Monster" is added as a bonus track. (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:47

Personnel

• Nina Simone – piano, vocals on all tracks, and arranger on track 10
• Rudy Stevenson – flute on track 9
• Lisle Atkinson – percussion on track 9
• Bobby Hamilton – drums on track 9
• Horace Ott – arranger and conductor on tracks 1,5,7,8,10,11,13
• Hal Mooney – arranger and conductor on tracks 2,3,4,6,12
• unknown orchestra